Ellerman House occupies an Edwardian mansion on Bantry Bay’s ridge — thirteen rooms and two villas looking straight down the Atlantic seaboard, wrapped around the country’s most important private collection of South African art.
It runs like a home: an honesty-bar wine gallery of 7,500 bottles, a kitchen that cooks to your mood rather than a menu, and staff outnumbering guests. Cape Town’s sights are minutes away; many guests find it hard to leave the house.
Bantry Bay’s art-filled house hotel — the finest address in Cape Town, and it isn’t close.
— Evance & JenniferYou never pay more than booking direct — usually less. And everything around your stay is handled.
As a trade partner we access preferred rates and seasonal offers the house doesn’t always publish — you’ll never pay more than booking direct. And a house can only sell its own rooms; we build the journey around it: international flights, the right nights, and where you go next.
A private transfer waiting at Cape Town airport, connections timed to your route, and hosts who already know your name. Book direct and the gaps become your problem; book with us and there are none.
We know its rooms individually — which catch the sunset over the bay — and how a Cape Town chapter here sequences with the Winelands and the bush on one seamless route.
A missed flight, a weather delay, a change of heart mid-trip — you contact one person, and we re-arrange everything behind the scenes. The house looks after you on property; we look after the whole journey.
They were fast, patient, and modified our itinerary to meet our needs… making us feel like their only clients.
Pierneef to contemporary masters — a national-grade collection you sleep inside.
7,500 bottles, honesty-bar rules — South Africa’s cellars in one room.
Bantry Bay’s ocean from nearly every room.
Hotel polish at house scale — staff outnumber guests.
Tell them your mood; dinner follows.
The collection and cellar are destinations themselves.
A guarded, residential register no big hotel matches.
Ocean sunsets and a house that anticipates.
The city chapter before Sabi Sands leopards.
October–April for Cape Town’s summer; the house is superb year-round.
3 nights.
The Cape Town chapter of a South Africa journey — city, Winelands, bush.
Tell us when you want to go and what matters most to you — the water, the food, the quiet. We’ll design your private, bespoke luxury South Africa journey around Ellerman House and take care of everything in between. No pressure, ever.
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